[development] CCK Field Indexing

[David Timothy Strauss]

----- "Aaron Winborn" <winborn at advomatic.com> wrote:

> At DrupalCampNYC, a small group of us have been discussing a common
> performance issue we've experienced with Views/CCK, and have come up
> with a possible solution.
> 
> Often, Views will create difficult queries that sometimes require
> examining a slow query log and tweaking field column indexing. It
> might be good for developers to be able to easily tweak indexing
> before it gets to that place. For instance, a library might have a
> node type with book title, author, summary, isbn, and not want
> indexing on isbn (as a hypothetical).

My larger-scale solution to this problem is denormalization with configurable indexing.